RabidChoco

Jun 27 2010, 12:11 PM

...There is a problem with this.
Ebert is a movie critic. Not a video game critic.
Why does the gaming industry feel it has to answer to a movie critic now?

FahrenheitRising

Jun 25 2010, 09:04 AM

Neo Metallix

Jun 23 2010, 07:02 PM

BlizShadow

Jun 15 2010, 08:31 PM

Don't forget iPhone footage. Man, going through loops on that version is a bit too disorienting--

Geeze... I don't know what Apple was thinking when they decided to make the ipod/iphone a gaming device, it absolutely SUCKS for games and I've tried it. Sonic 4 on iPhone looks pretty horrible too.

Well it depends on the quality of the game and how innovative it is. Most of the Sonic games are just meh on the iPod/iPhone. The better games are usually ones taking advantage of the Accelerometer. But that's off-topic, so...

I'm glad the game leaked on the internet. Sega would have left in the state it is, just like '06 (even though that was delayed). Luckily Sonic 4 was at least in a state of being fixable, where something like '06 was just beyond saving.

BlizShadow

Jun 15 2010, 08:31 PM

Don't forget iPhone footage. Man, going through loops on that version is a bit too disorienting--

Quote:

 

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves came out exactly eight months ago, and since then, it has become the PS3’s fastest selling exclusive title. Rightfully so too; the game has received critical praise from entire gaming industry.

From great story-telling to topnotch narration, Naughty Dog got everything right with that game. So much so that EA sees the title as a “beacon of hope” for the industry.

In a question posed to the publisher by Fast Company, concerning Roger Ebert’s comments, when he uttered that gaming is not and will never be art, Nick Earl, Senior VP and Group GM, Electronic Arts said:

“I think Uncharted 2 is one of the most incredible, flawless entertainment experiences that I have played in my entire career,” he said. “If he played that game, he would be able to get through it as a non-gamer, because you can’t help but get through it. It is just so beautifully delivered–the dialogue, the story, the acting is world class.”

“It will match up against any movie, in my opinion. I give them tremendous credit for what they did in that game.”

He added: “To me that is a beacon of hope for the industry, especially my group. I think it is art. It is absolutely art.

“You may have different opinions along the way,” he continued, “[but] in the end you can’t argue that is a wonderful experience that makes you feel so emotionally connected–I think that’s what art is all about. I can tell you we have such aspirations here to match that quality. I think we are not going to rest until we match that in every franchise.”

“It’s not just Uncharted. We are seeing a very strong macro-trend towards epic moments inside of a game. Call of Duty does it very effectively in their games. You feel like you are part of something absolutely magnificent. And it doesn’t require you doing a 17-button combo to pull that off.

There are magnificent moments in Street Fighter when it was in the arcade, but you had to hit six buttons to do it. What we’re learning is that if you go out to a broader audience you have to be able to deliver something magnificent regardless of your skill as a gamer.”

Well, what do you have to say about that Mr. Ebert? I reckon, videogames are art in every sense of the word. Art that’s even more difficult to bring to life than movies, since all the characters must be created, whereas with movies, human beings readily play their roles, naturally.

BlizShadow

Jun 18 2010, 12:00 PM

To disregard CD as canon at this point in time would be to disregard Sonic Adventure and subsequently every other major 3D release.

BlizShadow

Jun 18 2010, 11:08 AM

Neo Metallix

Jun 18 2010, 10:04 AM

I didn't move anything, I merely mentioned that not all of the art had it on him. It was not standard and even if it were, those pictures have a WHITE buckle. Clearly unacceptable if Sonic 4 has a yellow buckle.

First you said the buckle appeared in the Saturn era, then you said that it had to be seen in the Genesis artwork, then you said that it had to be on the boxart, and now it has to be yellow. Well, it is yellow--



It's a definitive, official model sheet from Sega's own art asset CD. You can't get more official and canon than that. You've been moving the goalpost; Defining more and more specific parameters that my argument has to account for whenever it proves a previous parameter wrong. xP

BlizShadow

Jun 18 2010, 08:46 AM

I'm arguing because I think I have an agreeable position, just as you do, given that you responded back to me. If you honestly didn't have time for this topic or didn't want to seem as argumentative as you call me, you were free to completely ignore my post.

Also, Sonic CD came out in 1993. S3&K both came out in 1994.

Regardless, no game graphically rendered his buckle, but there are art pieces before and after the one I posted that show a buckle of some kind. It wasn't just a part of CD; It was a staple of his design throughout the era and thus tied to the other games too.

And as I said, Sonic CD is canon by virtue of being referenced later, and considering as such, Sonic 4 can be considered a sequel to it too, just as Sonic Adventure can be considered a sequel to the classics because it directly references mythos introduced in S3&K as major plot points, despite the fact that it's on the Dreamcast.